Industrial Water - Physical/Chemical Treatment National Specialty Leader

The Industrial Water Technical Practice Physical/Chemical Treatment National Specialty Leader (NSL) will set the vision and strategy for their specialty while ensuring alignment to the company strategy, national practice, and business units. In this role, you will also be responsible for driving market growth, developing talent, and delivering high quality solutions in a way that continues to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors.

The National Specialty Leader role is designed to be coordinated with your other current roles and responsibilities such as Project Manager, Client Service Manager, or Project/Process Engineer.

NOTE to internal applicants: This position will close on Friday February 2nd. Please submit in advance of that date. All interviews will occur in February. 

Detailed Description:

Who you are:

• You consistently demonstrate strong leadership, coaching and verbal and written communication skills.
• You have a positive, can-do attitude.
• You are self-motivated and organized
• You are confident, yet humble and can effectively consult and partner with multiple business partners with varying needs.
• You excel in strategy development, project management, problem solving, consensus building, and talent development.
• You are a results-orientated leader with the ability to bring cross-functional partners together and quickly shift course as necessary to achieve goals.
• You are able to marshal resources and convey a clear vision across an enterprise in order to meet or exceed objectives.
• You have excellent process engineering skills and experience in physical/chemical water and wastewater treatment processes and water chemistry and can use industry-common tools and models.
• You have hands-on full-scale system conceptual design, detailed design, treatability, operations and troubleshooting skills related to physical/chemical treatment of industrial wastewaters

What you will do:

Practice Specialty Leadership

• Create a vision and priorities for the Physical/Chemical Treatment specialty area in alignment with and to inform the Industrial Water national practice strategy.
• Ensure the collective knowledge of the specialty is technically rigorous, effectively documented, regularly updated, and disseminated to Industrial Water practitioners across the company.
• As member of the national practice leadership team, work closely with the National Practice Leader (NPL) and other NSLs to advance the practice strategy nationally and working with regional and area practice leads to promote technical differentiation.
• Support development and application of innovative solutions, including strategic research and development efforts and engagement with the National Technical/Innovation Leader (NTIL) in the practice.
• Organize efforts to support the specialty and drive use of the Industrial Water Practice Portal to ensure active communication and collaboration within the specialty while maintaining oversight and guidance as an active leader

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Oversee prioritization and development of national technical standards (guidelines, best practices, tools, content), governance, and consistent usage for efficient, high-quality execution of specialty elements. 
• On strategic and complex projects, engage directly with delivery team throughout project life cycle, including early concept development, solution selection, project design, execution, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure relevant Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) engage effectively with project teams to apply consistent technical approaches, risk management, and quality delivery. 
• Support national sharing of resources to match top technical talent with strategic projects, working closely with national and regional practice leaders - getting the “right people” on the “right projects” through collaboration with Regional Practice Leaders.

Client Development and Sales

• In close association with Client Service Teams (CSTs), assume Client-facing Technical Leadership roles with strategic clients, including trusted advisor for clients and CSTs. 
• Directly engage with clients to build relationships, assess needs, and develop technical solutions.   
• Bring technical insights from engagement with client peers/network.
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the specialty area, and their technical focus, staff, strengths, and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.
• Work to build capacity and capability to deliver on business unit strategic goals for capturing and